Richard Seigneur de REVIERS, EARL OF DEVON

Birth:

Abt 1060

Reviers, Vernon, & Nehou, Normandy, France

Death:

8 Sep 1107

Mosterton, Beaminster, Dorsetshire, England

Burial:

Abbey of Montebourg, Devonshire, England

Marriage:

1089

Isle of Wight, England

Father:

Blocked

Mother:

Blocked

Sources:

Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 832
Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the UnitedKingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, IV:309-11

Notes:

Name Suffix: Earl Of Devon
Richard de Reviers, Lord of Reviers, Vernon, and Nehou (all in Normandy). [Burke's Peerage. p. 832]

Richard; feudal Lord of Vernon and holder of many manors at the time of the Domesday Survey 1086; enjoyed a local prominence in the County Palatine of Chester as Baron of Shipbrooke (a subinfeudatory rank (but not a peerage title) conferred by Hugh d'Avranches or Lupus (ie. "Wolf", so-called from his ferocity and acquisitiveness), Earlof Chester with quasi-regal powers, so created 1071 in the reign of his great-uncle of the half blood William I ("The Conqueror"). [Burke's Peerage, p. 2884on the Barony of Vernon]

Note: Burke's does not document that Richard was made an Earl of Devon.

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RICHARD DE REVIERS, Seigneur de Reviers, Vernon, and Néhou, in Normandy. His parentage is unknown, but he has been conjectured to have been son and heir of William DE VERNON (a). In Domesday he appears as the possessor of a single Manor Mosterton in Dorset. It has been erroneously considered that he was created Earl of Devon by Henry I. The authorities for this are the statements made in two monastic chronicles. There is, however, abundant charter evidence thathe never styled himself an Earl, that his wife in her widowhood never styled herself a Countess, and that none of their children, nor their grandchildren, ever so styled them. He was the founder (in the technical sense of the word) of the Abbey of Montebourg.

He married Adelise, daughter of William PEVEREL of Nottingham, the elder, by Adeline, his wife. He died 8 September 1107, and was buried in the Abbey of Montebourg. His widow survived her eldest son, Baldwin, and died 27 May 1156 or later. [Complete Peerage IV:309-11, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(a) It appears from a charter of Henry I to the canons of Breamore that Richard's son, Baldwin had an uncle Hugh, who (if by 'Avunnculus' is meant 'patruus') may be the Hugh de Redveris mentioned in a memorandum of La Trinite at Caen, and also the Hugh mentioned as son of William de Vernon in a document (of date about 1067) in the cartulary of La Trinite at Rouen, signed by William Vernonensis and Emma his wife. In the register of Carisbrooke it is saidthat Richard de Reviers was 'nepos' of William Fitz Osborn, after whose death (his sons John & Richard having dvp.) the Isle of Wight was inherited by the said Richard, 'tunc Comes Exonie.' So that this Richard may have been son of William de Vernon, by Emma, sister of William fitz Osborn. The continuator of William of Jumieges states that a niece of Gunnor the wife of Duke Richard was married to Osmund de Centumvillis, Vicomte de Vernon, and was mother of the first Fulk de Aneio and of the mother of the first Baldwin de Reviers.

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Following copied from Dave Utzinger, World Connect db=utzing, rootsweb.com:

Close advisor to Henry I.

Richards parentage has long been shrouded in confusion. Dugdale said he was the son of Baldwin de Meules, but this was based on the misconception that Ricahrd fitz Baldwin was the same person as Richard de Redvers. It has also been argued more recently that Richard was the son of a Baldwin de Redvers who is mentioned in the deathbed charter of his brother Richard in 1060.

However, it is most likely that Richard was a son of William de Vernon, lord of Vernon, Normandy who died after 1077, and probably before 1089. A charter of Richard de Vernon (grandson or great grandson of Richard de Redvers) preserved by Thomas Stapleton and dated by him to 1186 states that 'confirmo
donationem quam primus Willelmus de Vernone ANTECESSOR MEUS, cujus corpus in ecclesia de Vernone jacet...'If this is taken in conjunction with the facts that WIlliam de Vernon had a son named Hugh, and that Richard's son Baldwin had an uncle named Hugh, it shows that William had two sons, Hugh and Richard.

Adelise PEVEREL

Birth:

Abt 1069

of Nottinghamshire, England

Father:

William "the Elder" PEVEREL, DE NOTTINGHAM

Mother:

Adeline (Adeliza) Mrs PEVEREL

Children

Marriage

Robert de REVIERS

Birth:

Abt 1094

Ste Mere-Eglise, France

Death:

Marr:

William de VERNON, LORD VERNON

Birth:

Abt 1095

Shipbrook, Northwich, Cheshire, England

Death:

Abt 1174

Marr:

Hugh REVIERS

Birth:

Abt 1096

Vernon, Normandy, France

Death:

Marr:

Hawise (Maud) de REVIERS

Birth:

Abt 1097

Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Death:

Aft 1161

Marr:

Avis de REVIERS

Birth:

Abt 1100

Mosterton, Beaminster, Dorsetshire, England

Death:

Marr:

Baldwin de REVIERS, 1ST EARL OF DEVON

Birth:

Abt 1102

Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Death:

4 Jun 1155

Adelise Lucia de BAALUN

Marr:

Abt 1117

England

Notes:

Name Suffix: 1st Earl Of Devon
1 NAME Baldwin De /Redvers/
2 GIVN Baldwin De
2 SURN Redvers
2 NSFX 1st Earl Of Devon

Baldwin de Reviers, son of Richard de Reviers, Lord of Reviers, Vernon, and Nehou (all in Normandy), supported the Empress Maud against King Stephen in the period known as the Anarchy following the death of Henry I and was by her created Earl of Devon c1141. The name of Reviers was subsequently corrupted to Redvers. As well as holdingthe Earldom of Devon the de Revierses were Lords of the Isle of Wight. [Burke's Peerage]

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EARLDOM OF DEVON (I)

BALDWIN DE REVIERS, son and heir of Richard DE REVIERs. On the rumour of the King's
death, in April 1136, he was one of the first to breakinto revolt. Seizing the royal castle of Exeter, he sustained a long siege by the King, and was ultimately allowed to withdraw his forces on giving up the castle. The King then proceeded to the Isle of Wight, took possession of the island, and drove him, with his wife and children, into exile. He took refuge at the Court of the Count of Anjou, and soon afterwards conducted a successful raid into Normandy. About Lent 1138 he was taken prisoner in Normandy by Enguerrand de Say, a partisan of King Stephen. He returned to England in -the autumn of 1139,
shortly before the arrival of the Empress Maud, and, landing at Wareham, seized the castle of Corfe. This he defended successfully against the King, forcing him eventually to raise the siege. By the Empress he was created EARL OF DEVON, probably in 1141, and certainly before Midsummer in that year. He married Adelise. He died 4 June 1155, and was buried (as was his said wife) in Quarr Abbey, which he had founded in 1132. [Complete Peerage IV:311-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Baldwin de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon. This nobleman, upon the demise of King Henry I, espousing the cause of the Empress Maud, took up arms and immediately fortified his castle of Exeter and the Isle of Wight; but, being besieged by KingStephen, he was obliged to surrender the castle and all his other possessions and to withdraw with his family from the kingdom. We find him, however, soon again returning and in the enjoyment of the Earldom of Devon; but, like his father, generally styled Earl of Exeter, from residing in the city, His lordship m. Lucia, dau. of Dru de Balun, and had issue, Richard, his successor; William, surnamed de Verdon; and Maud. He d. in June, 1155, and was s. by his son, Richardde Redvers, 3rd Earl of Devon. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 140, Courtenay, Barons Courtenay, Earls ofDevon]

Joan de REVIERS

Birth:

Abt 1108

Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Death:

Aft 1140

Marr:

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Richard Seigneur de Reviers, Earl of Devon - Adelise Peverel

Richard Seigneur de Reviers, Earl of Devon was born at Reviers, Vernon, & Nehou, Normandy, France Abt 1060.

He married Adelise Peverel 1089 at Isle of Wight, England . Adelise Peverel was born at of Nottinghamshire, England Abt 1069 daughter of William "the Elder" Peverel, de Nottingham and Adeline (Adeliza) Mrs Peverel .

They were the parents of 7 children:
Robert de Reviers born Abt 1094.
William de Vernon, Lord Vernon born Abt 1095.
Hugh Reviers born Abt 1096.
Hawise (Maud) de Reviers born Abt 1097.
Avis de Reviers born Abt 1100.
Baldwin de Reviers, 1st Earl of Devon born Abt 1102.
Joan de Reviers born Abt 1108.

Richard Seigneur de Reviers, Earl of Devon died 8 Sep 1107 at Mosterton, Beaminster, Dorsetshire, England .